The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Evolution never looks to the future.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.